If you combine solid financial experience with the ability to achieve goals independently, this position offers you some very compelling opportunities. You will:

• Take on an important new position created to expand the Sales Finance team's capacity in supporting business decisions in new product development, costing and more. 
• Grow your skills in a diverse role that includes analyzing pricing and costs as well as product and business financial results. In addition, you may contribute to special projects.
• Build a progressive career home at a global industry leader. History shows that strong performers can advance.
• Enjoy an upbeat, team-oriented culture where people have a good deal of autonomy and their contributions are appreciated.
• Support our mission of providing fresh, healthy foods while making a consistently positive impact on employees, communities, the environment, and customers.

Bonduelle Fresh Americas is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bonduelle (BON.PA), and home of the Ready Pac Foods brand. For over 45 years, Ready Pac Foods has been a leader in offering the most innovative fresh food products to consumers around the world. With four processing facilities throughout the U.S., we focus on fresh vegetables, salads and fresh meal solutions for the Americas. We manufacture a complete range of products featuring fresh produce and protein under the company's Ready Pac Foods®, Bistro®, Ready Snax®, Cool Cuts®, and Bonduelle Fresh Picked™ brands.

Pictured: Our Ready Snax® Snack Packs are the perfect snack solution at work, after school or anywhere on-the-go. Each of the nine varieties was created to curb your hunger and provide you with a boost of vitamins, all with fewer than 250 calories.

To be a good fit for the Pricing Analyst opportunity, you will have:

• A bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or similar field.
• 3+ years of experience in financial roles in CPG organizations, including analyzing pricing, cost, product performance and business results.
• Knowledge of the principles and practices of accounting and finance.
• Strong technical skills/agility with a variety of systems, including:
  • Intermediate to advanced skills in MS Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, etc.). 
  • Solid proficiency with PowerPoint.
  • Experience working with ERP systems, ideally including extracting data.
• The ability to track work (such as changes to recipes) diligently.

Just as important will be the following competencies and characteristics:

• Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills.
• Openness to learning.
• Strong initiative, a self-starter approach and the ability to work in a demanding, high-stress environment balancing multiple priorities and deadlines.
• A detail orientation with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• The ability to work cooperatively with others as well as independently.
• The ability to influence cross-functional team members.

Top candidates also will have several of the following:

• Familiarity with process cost accounting.
• Experience working with bills of materials, standard costs and performance drivers within manufacturing plants (labor efficiency, yield analysis, activity based costing, plant overhead analysis).
• CPG and revenue management experience.
• Experience with data warehouses and costing systems.
• Familiarity with MS Access or other database management software.

Pictured: Our latest line of chopped salad kits are inspired by flavors and recipes from around the world.

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will join a team that includes a Financial Analyst and a Pricing Coordinator. Your main responsibilities will be to support the Sales Finance manager in financial modeling for the business's bidding & new product development, provide pricing support in JDE, and handle product costing. You'll work directly with the Sales Finance team, to help develop pro forma P&Ls to provide guidance to the business team for decisions. 

On a day-to-day basis, you'll divide your time evenly between:

• Working with the Pricing Coordinator, including receiving price requests from Sales, updating information in JDE, resolving discrepancies, and more.
• Working with the Financial Analyst, learning costing and handling a share of the responsibilities.

More specifically, you will:

• Provide support in the coordination and completion of price changes and other price communication.
• Assist the Pricing Coordinator in pricing management and issues for both foodservice and retail customers.
• Adhere to timelines and work cross-functionally to ensure successful and accurate completion of large and small pricing actions.
• Support the Finance analyst in the costing process for both Foodservice and Retail customers.
• Coordinate and assist other groups with pricing information, including answering (within established guidelines) customers' pricing questions and complaints.
• Review current pricing strategies and make recommendations to optimize profitability while focusing on delivery of value to the customer.
• Provide in-depth analysis to drive an effective pricing strategy for all product lines and customer types.
• Perform financial analysis and cost analysis; prepare product development requests. Calculate target costs and update standard costs and prices.
• Attend weekly/monthly meetings on various projects to communicate progress and present recommendations.
• Analyze performance vs. standards, and budget to achieved goals.

Pictured: Our processing facilities apply the latest global standards of food safety and quality. Using the latest technology and equipment, our goal is to ensure we only offer the highest-quality products.

Growth built in
As you can see under The Role tab, we'll be helping you get up to speed in multiple areas. Once you have developed a strong understanding of the Sales Finance team's operations, you may have the chance to support special projects. For example, we are looking at developing a cost analytics process that will compare actual to forecasted performance early in a new product launch.

Healthy products, healthy values
"Giving people the freedom to eat healthier" has a deeper meaning for us. We believe in responsible business practices that benefit our associates, consumers and communities. Every consumer should have access to fresh, healthy and convenient choices and every one of our products is made with responsibly-sourced ingredients, by individuals who are treated ethically and with respect every day.

Be The Difference
The Ready Pac Difference is our identity. It defines the value we create that fuels our growth in order to be the most innovative fresh food company. It also defines the culture we create that enables our success and gives us the freedom to invest in our people, our business, and ultimately our consumers. The values defined in The Difference support our ability to give our Associates the freedom to drive results, learn and have fun.

Corporate responsibility
We are passionate about promoting sustainable agriculture, reducing our environmental impact, encouraging all employees to drive a culture of corporate social responsibility (CSR), feeding people well and feeding them sustainably, and promoting the well-being of our employees and communities. See the video for more information.

Rewarding environment
Our culture values teamwork and collaboration, and we are proactive about maintaining an atmosphere that is positive and motivating. We encourage and reward engagement, such as identifying potential safety or quality issues.

Excellent compensation
In addition to a competitive salary and incentive bonus potential, we offer healthcare benefits to all associates after 30 days of employment, a 401(k) plan after 60 days, a tuition reimbursement program, and more.